Dr. Leslie Garson pulls a Google tablet from his blue scrubs and taps on an app icon. On the 7-inch tablet screen, green dots indicate two doctors are online. The supervising anesthesiologist at UCI Medical Center taps on the dot for Dr. Warren Davis, a resident doctor in the operating room of a patient having a knee surgery.
A second la

A bankruptcy court hearing on a Hong Kong billionaire's plan to relaunch Fisker Automotive has been delayed a week, to Jan. 10, as new details emerged on a proposed alternative.
Federal bankruptcy judge Kevin Gross will decide whether to proceed with Richard Li's plan for the troubled maker of the $100,000-plus Karma hybrid, which has sp

Another slice of life has again made a pretzel of your end-of-day schedule.
So, what to do about dinner in the slow cooker?
The latest gadgetry twist means you could just whip out your smartphone and use an app to dial back the cooking to simmer.
Yes, even kitchen gadgets have gone Wi-Fi.
At this week's Consumer E

While executives of Samsung, Sony and other technology companies are in Las Vegas this week to woo the public with glitzy product showings, Broadcom Corp. is holding closed-door meetings to show tech firms new types of its communications chips, which will be key to the features of those gadgets.
Broadcom's latest chips are designed to do

The Hong Kong billionaire who purchased a U.S. loan to Fisker Automotive in November also bought a bank’s loan on the automaker at a discount, possibly strengthening his position heading into a key bankruptcy court hearing this Friday.
Richard Li, the son of one of Asia’s richest men, assumed control of Fisker by paying $25 m

If you've noticed more cars rocketing down the carpool lane with a big T on the rear hatch, it's because Tesla has a growing Orange County presence. The electric-car maker has three stores at local malls to peddle its $70,000-plus Model S to the county's luxury market.
And soon Tesla drivers will be able to speed-charge their vehicles fo

More screens in more places, to keep people more connected than ever before (or is it more distracted?). That was the big theme behind the 2014 Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas this week. Here's a rundown of some of the new products and services that Orange County companies showed there.
TINY, WEARABLE SCREENS
Founta

Bidding for Fisker Automotive is heating up even before an auction begins.
Hybrid Technology, a group led by Hong Kong billionaire Richard Li, said Monday it would offer $55 million for Fisker. That trumps, at least in raw dollars, the roughly $37 million proposed by Chinese auto-parts supplier Wanxiang on Friday.
Li's group also

Dave March takes a sip of his coffee and looks through the windshield of his car, which is idling in the water in Newport Harbor, next to his 65-foot yacht.
“This has been a dream for 10, 15 years,” he says, his gaze fixed toward Catalina. “Every time I see that island, I think, ‘Oh, it's not that far.'”

Nicolas Szczedrin was unemployed and in debt. His wife was expecting their first child. And he had just lost all his money investing in a technology company – the former employer – that tapped out when the '90s dot-com bubble burst.
To stay busy while looking for a job, Szczedrin started his own Irvine tech outfit, Nixsys Inc

Fiddling with electronics in the camper trailer where he was living in his parents' driveway, teenager Palmer Luckey made a connection that just might change the world.
Luckey is captivated with technology and, in particular, virtual reality. VR was pervasive in stories throughout his childhood.
The '90s began with go-anywhere ad

The man who upended the bankruptcy plan for Orange County luxury hybrid automaker Fisker Automotive touted his alternative and suggested he'd be open to cooperating with Tesla and any other companies in restarting production of the Karma automobile.
“The bid is not just about who pays more,” said Chinese billionaire Lu Guanqi

Headaches for small business owners and Web surfers alike could be on the way as the people who sell Internet addresses dramatically change what URLs look like.
Familiar domains like .com, .net and .edu will be joined in the coming days by .bike, .guru and .plumbing. The new top-level domains, as they’re called, are the first to go

NEW YORK – If it's on TV, it's on Twitter, at least when it comes to blockbuster events such as the Super Bowl.
Advertisers, in particular, are ready to capitalize.
“What advertisers have realized is that Super Bowl advertising doesn't just take place on TV, with your 30-second or

California regulators have notified a handful of private, for-profit schools teaching computer coding that they must be licensed by the state or face a $50,000 fine.
“We want to make sure that students are protected,” said Russ Heimerich, spokesman for the state Bureau for Private Postsecondary Education, noting that some of